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Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
wearable biosensors,” says Yanfei Xu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our polymer ... products such as plastic casings for laptops and mobile phones, which can overheat, in part because the ... coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-plastic-insulator-heat-conductorEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
funded, in part, by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ... mechanical engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “We also wanted to maximize ... designed to be easily sterilized and used many times. As the number of new Covid-19 cases in the United ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskAdventures in the Pappalardo Lab
calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... just, say, the next product development cycle.” So he headed back to MIT, where he had earned his PhD in ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Exuberantly praised by many in MechE, the Pappalardo Lab is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adventures-pappalardo-labEngineering better care
where a stem cell biologist might weigh in on a mechanical design, or an electrical engineer might spot ... L4TE brings together mechanical and electrical engineers, biologists, physicians, and veterinarians in ... a uniquely structured lab with specialized “cores” such as fabrication, bioanalytics, and in vivo teams. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-better-careJ-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-PI Amy Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical ... Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ... Initiatives, and provides commercialization grants to help develop products and services that will have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsCompeting Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration
upstream migration. Both mechanisms are due to asymmetry in a tumor cell’s interactions with its ... Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Mechanical Engineering ... graduate student William Polacheck, in collaboration with Joseph Charest from the Charles Stark Draper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/competing-mechanisms-influence-tumor-cell-migrationA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
from known structures — a significant development in the exploration of this nascent technology with ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ... inorganic crystals with targeted properties,” recently published in the journal Matter. In the research, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyTeam Led by MechE Engineers Places Second at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
developing these future engineering leaders has been Rodgers’ main motivation in his continuing work with the ... a dream into reality through a special section of Department of Mechanical Engineering design course 2.752 ... (Development of Mechanical Products) this past spring, which was taught by Rodgers; Alex Slocum, the Pappalardo ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-led-meche-engineers-places-second-pikes-peak-international-hill-climbYour future home might be framed with printed plastic
floor truss is made from wood beams that connect via metal plates in a pattern resembling a ladder with ... a lecturer in the MIT School of Engineering and research scientist in the MIT Office of Innovation. “The key ... and professor of mechanical engineering David Hardt, who are all members of the MIT Laboratory for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/your-future-home-might-be-framed-printed-plasticStudent Spotlight: Engineers of tomorrow
with a special focus on protecting North Atlantic right whales. Baille is also involved in an ongoing ... problems. Regenwetter, Lyle PhD 04.jpg Lyle Regenwetter works with Professor Faez Ahmed in the DeCoDE ... Díaz-Marín previously worked with Professor Evelyn Wang in the Device Research Lab and currently works with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-engineers-tomorrowTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... University in the city, where he studied mechanical engineering. In his second year, as has been mandatory in ... the beginning process of development, not so much in maturation of products.” After enabling first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsEngineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who specializes in developing hydrogel-based ... valve, and engineers working to improve these designs must test them repeatedly, first in simple benchtop ... engineers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a bionic “heart” that offers a more realistic model for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-bionic-%E2%80%9Cheart%E2%80%9D-testing-prosthetic-valves-other-cardiac-devicesMIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt
collaboration, there will also be a special emphasis on involving Egyptian women and people with disabilities in ... years in developing a Center of Excellence in Energy at Ain Shams University, Mansoura University, and ... In addition to the MIT-led center, Cornell University will partner with Cairo University, and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-30-million-help-address-energy-challenges-egyptLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Museum. Following in the footsteps of his father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, a chemist and ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award
School of Engineering. “The D-Lab team deeply understands that designing and developing products and ... recognized by this award,” says Amy Smith, D-Lab founding director and senior lecturer in mechanical ... engineering. “Design is such an important part of what we do at D-Lab — we believe that both the products and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum-honors-mit-d-lab-national-design-awardSolar panels get a face-lift with custom designs
the panels blended in with the shingle roof of a log cabin in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. In December, ... a lot about aesthetics.” Captivating people with solar SolarSkin is the product of the co-founders’ ... unique vision, combined with MIT talent that helped make the product a reality. Balasubramanian came to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-panels-get-face-lift-custom-designsQ&A: Alberto Rodriguez on teaching a robot to find your keys
in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1024Sangwoon-Alberto-MCube.jpg Alberto Rodriguez is ... a roboticist specializing in tactile sensing. Here, he and PhD student Sangwoon Kim (left) work with a robot ... realized robotics, and not mathematics or physics, would be his life’s calling. “I fell in love with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-alberto-rodriguez-teaching-robot-find-your-keysStudent Awards
Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical and Systems Engineering) Nicholas Kwok Louis ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Beckett Colson, Lampros Tsontzos AMP Inc. Award ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awardsFour researchers with MIT ties earn 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowships
background is only in engineering, with very limited exposure to neuroscience. I'm very excited to be ... a graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering, where he worked with Professor J. Christopher Love on ... high-quality proteins in yeast, which enables rapid testing of new products and low-cost manufacturing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-mit-ties-earn-2023-schmidt-science-fellowshipsPing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... — to precisely hit the ball to a desired location on the table with various types of spin. In tests, ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ...
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